It's not pressed, it's sputtered - vaporised and deposited in a vacuum.
That is done for the mold.
At least it is according to the descriptions I found in a non-exhaustive search for a description of the process, like the one I linked to. I wouldn't be surprised if there were different processes in use though.
I've suffered one memory lapse this week, I'll have to check again. Still, I do not believe this to be the case, but I'll hold off until I have proof.
Maybe you have nothing better to do, not so with me.
OK. I'll concede that my memory failed me as to which part was pressed. I stick by my contention that it's not silvering. Silvering requires it to be a chemical process. Even if I concede that one can silver with a metal other than silver, pressing a layer of aluminum foil onto a plastic disk is not silvering.
Anyways, I do find it funny because these issues are important issues to people on this site. Rewarding RIAAs laywers and appointing oppressive lawyers like the BSA to federal judgeship is something that effects geeks on this site more then funding abortions with tax dollars and the other issues he has supposedly changed.
Lawyers are an odd group. They can destroy the lives of each other's clients and hold no personal ill will after the fact. Obama is a lawyer too, he doesn't give a damn about what bad things these ambulance chasers have done.
It's an enormous deal to me that my tax dollars are being used to fund overseas abortions. It's an enormous deal to me that he wants to use my tax dollars to fund domestic abortions as well.
The test of Obama's presidency, at least for a lot of us here, is going to be "does his cons outweigh his pros". And currently it looks like the answer is no.
We were trying to tell these fucktards that. They had tingly feelings creeping up their legs when the Obamassia spoke. They were chanting the Change mantra and wouldn't listen.
What's the worst part of it? He's probably going to fuck up so badly that it'll be another 230 years before another black president is elected.
It's simple economics. Lower prices will result in higher marginal utility and more people will buy instead of download.
Look at it this way. If all of the millions of songs that people are downloading for free were to go away, not every one of those people would go out and buy the music. If the prices were reduced to, say, (allofmp3.com levels) then many people who wouldn't otherwise buy the songs would.
Not only that, but I used the wrong term entirely. The correct term was "based on". I apologize.
I'm going to have to disagree with you here as well. IANAL, and apparently you are not either.
"Based on" is far too imprecise a term. The code that you write is yours. You can license it under whatever terms you want to. The GPL is only binding if you use someone else's code.
A plugin uses the host application's API. It is, therefore a derived work.
You sir do not understand what "derived" means.
As others have pointed out, much software uses the WIN32 API;that does not make them derived works. How about this. QT for Windows uses the WIN32 API. Does that mean that they've taken a derived work of Windows and made it LGPL?
No, of course not. There must be more to this. Maybe like an SDK that will be GPL only. Whatever the case may be, what's to stop some company from reverse engineering the SDK and putting out a plugin with whatever license they choose?
Multiple sources. Include vacuum packed optical media, magnetic media, flash media and laminated paper printouts of the code.
In 50 years they should still have the ability to take digital photographs of the laminated sheets and with a little luck, OCR will be much better. You're going to have to make danmed sure that you can keep moisture out of the package. You should find the thickest, heaviest mylar you can and use that to vacuum pack the components. And with each of the components wrapped in air tight media, wrap them again. After that, wrap them again. Light, oxygen and moisture are your enemies. You must keep them out.
I'm a former Mac user. I've been through the excuse cycle before. KDE 4 is a piece of dogshit. If it wasn't ready for prime time, they shouldn't have released. I tried KDE and it sucked. I still run KDE 3.5.x just because it is a better user experience.
The earth wasn't "there" when he returned. Even for the one minute trip, it was several hundred miles away. In that instant, the Delorean didn't move any distance, but the earth had moved several hundred miles.
So, let's see if you can wrap your head around this. Even when it looks like it's perfectly still, the earth is moving quite rapidly through space. The fact that we are traveling with it doesn't matter. If you are on a moving train and you travel one minute into the future(while the train continues to pass normally through time), the train will have long since left you and you'd find yourself standing on (hopefully) empty tracks.
Where do you think the computer stored the key when it was decrypting the data? There's no magical secure encryption key land where the key could have been stored. It would have been stored IN MEMORY. That's where it's found with the cold boot attack.
My fucking point is that many of the exact same people who were making excuses while we were jumping up and down pointing at all of the Clinton era corruption are the ones screaming for blood now.
My fucking point is that these people don't give 1/10 of a fuck about the rule of law, it's just about "getting Bush".
Does it bother anyone that Ubuntu, the community's duly annointed challenger to Microsoft hegemony
No, Ubuntu is the flavor of the week. One time, it was Debian, another time it was Red Hat, another time it was Fedora, another time it was Mandrake, another time it was Gentoo.
I don't quite know where the bandwagon effect starts, but when a new distro becomes popular it's all people talk about for a year or two, but something else new comes along and big groups of people flock to it.
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Just don't forget your PIN Number.
LK
It's not pressed, it's sputtered - vaporised and deposited in a vacuum.
That is done for the mold.
At least it is according to the descriptions I found in a non-exhaustive search for a description of the process, like the one I linked to. I wouldn't be surprised if there were different processes in use though.
I've suffered one memory lapse this week, I'll have to check again. Still, I do not believe this to be the case, but I'll hold off until I have proof.
LK
Work, family and school.
Maybe you have nothing better to do, not so with me.
OK. I'll concede that my memory failed me as to which part was pressed. I stick by my contention that it's not silvering. Silvering requires it to be a chemical process. Even if I concede that one can silver with a metal other than silver, pressing a layer of aluminum foil onto a plastic disk is not silvering.
LK
forcing a religion on people via the government is gone
Gone? It was never here.
Anyways, I do find it funny because these issues are important issues to people on this site. Rewarding RIAAs laywers and appointing oppressive lawyers like the BSA to federal judgeship is something that effects geeks on this site more then funding abortions with tax dollars and the other issues he has supposedly changed.
Lawyers are an odd group. They can destroy the lives of each other's clients and hold no personal ill will after the fact. Obama is a lawyer too, he doesn't give a damn about what bad things these ambulance chasers have done.
It's an enormous deal to me that my tax dollars are being used to fund overseas abortions. It's an enormous deal to me that he wants to use my tax dollars to fund domestic abortions as well.
The test of Obama's presidency, at least for a lot of us here, is going to be "does his cons outweigh his pros". And currently it looks like the answer is no.
We were trying to tell these fucktards that. They had tingly feelings creeping up their legs when the Obamassia spoke. They were chanting the Change mantra and wouldn't listen.
What's the worst part of it? He's probably going to fuck up so badly that it'll be another 230 years before another black president is elected.
LK
No, No, No.
In commercially produced optical media, the plastic is applied to the aluminum, not the other way around.
IT'S NOT SILVERING.
LK
Excellent points. All true. However, that's not the question.
Businesses already know how to maximize profit. The question was how to reduce piracy.
LK
Lower prices.
It's simple economics. Lower prices will result in higher marginal utility and more people will buy instead of download.
Look at it this way. If all of the millions of songs that people are downloading for free were to go away, not every one of those people would go out and buy the music. If the prices were reduced to, say, (allofmp3.com levels) then many people who wouldn't otherwise buy the songs would.
LK
Not only that, but I used the wrong term entirely. The correct term was "based on". I apologize.
I'm going to have to disagree with you here as well. IANAL, and apparently you are not either.
"Based on" is far too imprecise a term. The code that you write is yours. You can license it under whatever terms you want to. The GPL is only binding if you use someone else's code.
LK
A plugin uses the host application's API. It is, therefore a derived work.
You sir do not understand what "derived" means.
As others have pointed out, much software uses the WIN32 API;that does not make them derived works. How about this. QT for Windows uses the WIN32 API. Does that mean that they've taken a derived work of Windows and made it LGPL?
No, of course not. There must be more to this. Maybe like an SDK that will be GPL only. Whatever the case may be, what's to stop some company from reverse engineering the SDK and putting out a plugin with whatever license they choose?
Have any of you read Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon? Authors who "get" us are not new to the literary scene.
LK
That process requires glass. The polycarbonate (IOW, plastic) of an optical disk means that it's not silvering.
LK
Multiple sources. Include vacuum packed optical media, magnetic media, flash media and laminated paper printouts of the code.
In 50 years they should still have the ability to take digital photographs of the laminated sheets and with a little luck, OCR will be much better. You're going to have to make danmed sure that you can keep moisture out of the package. You should find the thickest, heaviest mylar you can and use that to vacuum pack the components. And with each of the components wrapped in air tight media, wrap them again. After that, wrap them again. Light, oxygen and moisture are your enemies. You must keep them out.
LK
music CDs are made from durable polycarbonate with a layer of silvering applied on the top side
Silvering? No, it's aluminum.
LK
I'm a former Mac user. I've been through the excuse cycle before. KDE 4 is a piece of dogshit. If it wasn't ready for prime time, they shouldn't have released. I tried KDE and it sucked. I still run KDE 3.5.x just because it is a better user experience.
LK
The earth wasn't "there" when he returned. Even for the one minute trip, it was several hundred miles away. In that instant, the Delorean didn't move any distance, but the earth had moved several hundred miles.
So, let's see if you can wrap your head around this. Even when it looks like it's perfectly still, the earth is moving quite rapidly through space. The fact that we are traveling with it doesn't matter. If you are on a moving train and you travel one minute into the future(while the train continues to pass normally through time), the train will have long since left you and you'd find yourself standing on (hopefully) empty tracks.
LK
Where do you think the computer stored the key when it was decrypting the data? There's no magical secure encryption key land where the key could have been stored. It would have been stored IN MEMORY. That's where it's found with the cold boot attack.
LK
Or what exactly is/was your fucking point?
My fucking point is that many of the exact same people who were making excuses while we were jumping up and down pointing at all of the Clinton era corruption are the ones screaming for blood now.
My fucking point is that these people don't give 1/10 of a fuck about the rule of law, it's just about "getting Bush".
LK
Does it bother anyone that Ubuntu, the community's duly annointed challenger to Microsoft hegemony
No, Ubuntu is the flavor of the week. One time, it was Debian, another time it was Red Hat, another time it was Fedora, another time it was Mandrake, another time it was Gentoo.
I don't quite know where the bandwagon effect starts, but when a new distro becomes popular it's all people talk about for a year or two, but something else new comes along and big groups of people flock to it.
LK
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What issue might that be? The double standard? Conduct that's only scandalous when a Republican does it?
LK
But the law trumps the office.
Do you mind if I ask what was your position when the previous President was on trial for Perjury, Subornation of Perjury and Obstruction of Justice?
LK
Of course, you convienently forget the emails that disappeared on the Clinton/Gore watch...
LK
And he didn't cause much harm to the country, unlike his successors (I can't wait to see the Obama debacle).
That's clearly debatable.
So a well-laid president who doesn't fuck up the economy or practice neo-fascist politics is fine by me.
He got his dick sucked by a great big fat girl, it would be ok if she was at least pretty but she wasn't. That's not exactly well-laid.
None of that would have mattered if he hadn't perjured himself and encouraged other people to do it as well.
LK
Bill did succeed in getting quite a few blowjobs, at the cost of roughly one dry-cleaning bill.
No, his problem was he was too cheap to pay for Monica's dry cleaning.
LK